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[Spinning Fly]

Is this still a thing today in 2016?

It's still a thing but less effective. By lowering my gfps I can squeeze some fps in a pretty big fortress, but we're talking about 10~15% of increment. Other p people could have other results, depending probably on the rig they're using.

Reducing GFPS to 15 raised FPS on my 200-dwarf fort from about 10 to about 12. And then after a few more seasons it slowly went back down. So don't expect anything dramatic.

[omega_dwarf]

It depends a lot on where your fort is. It depends on what's causing your lag. If you have a surface fort, with lots of tree litter, then yes, this is going to make a pretty dramatic impact. If you're underground and most of your lag is pathfinding, thermo, fluids, and active history, then no, it's not going to do squat. But I nevertheless swear by this tip. (See my sig.) It's neat to see this was already known back in 2008. My G_FPS is always at 10, I think. The UI is slightly slower to use, but the speedup during gametime is quite worth it. Only really makes a UI difference if you need to move the cursor a long way using the keyboard.

If this tip is going to help you, your calculations per second should depend on the window size, I think, so you could try playing with a smaller window of dwarf fortress first and see if that helps. If it does, then the G_FPS tip is for you.

Also, to another poster, calcs per second of 10 is abysmally low, and definitely caused by something other than graphics (unless your computer is a brick), so it makes sense that it only boosted you ineffectively. But in my experience, it's enough to take 60 fps back up to 100 in many scenarios, if you have a moderate-sized fort in which you might expect to have good fps already (which are the kinds of forts I play, since I hate low fps), but inexplicably don't.

[steel jackal]

if you really want an FPS boost then go with a single threaded CPU

df is a single threaded program so if your using an intel CPU your only using 1/4th its power
even worse if your an AMD user as you only can use 1/8th its power

ive heard rumors about people getting DF to run multithreaded but with mixed results, its like forcing SLI/crossfire in minecraft, if it works its a decent boost, if it dosnt it, makes your performance worse, if not crashing entirely

your best bet to boost fps is to overclock, its the only thing that will absolutely guarantee a boost to df because it makes your CPU run at higher than factory default speeds

NOTE: extreme overclocking can break your cpu, so check what CPU you have and look around the internet for safe clock speeds, every CPU is slightly different so your maximum safe speed might be higher or lower than what people tell you.
CPUs are normally locked at a very low clock speed compared to what they can really do because of the slight differences between each chip, setting the limit low makes sure that almost every CPU they sell works as intended, however, you can boost the clock speed to a much higher limit safely because most default clock speeds are being very conservative.

[Bwint]

If we're talking about PC upgrades to boost FPS, the memory cache on your chip and the read speed of your RAM matter as well. Finally, you'll want a fast SSD so your OS runs quickly.

[hun]

Set G_FPS to 20, nothing changed for my eyes, but I have an increase from about 50 to 70! 20 FPS completely for free, that's huge.
My fort is not so big, obviously, but I prefer to play 80-100 dorf forts anyway.

[Dustin]

for me ive found that for every about 30 min, if you just let your game go into any kind of window that pauses the game, like the z-menu, or anything like that, and just letting it sit there for a few min, it will generally increase your fps as i assume it processes pathing